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...“I understand there is the perception of abuse, but on the other hand the response is profoundly authoritarian,” said Edna Jaime, founder, and director of think-tank México Evalúa....
...them: the golden rococo surfaces of Versailles, old dynasties as portrayed by Velázquez....
...Some enterprising painters went themselves: Sebastián López de Arteaga, emigrating from Seville to Mexico in 1640, established a tenebrist Baroque school in his adopted home, with violently theatrical compositions...
...“We still have the same problem, we don’t have institutions . . . that really work,” said Edna Jaime, director of think-tank Mexico Evalua....
...“The first quarter was an excellent quarter,” Velázquez said....
...Velázquez: The Complete Works, by José López-Rey and Odile Delenda, Taschen, RRP from £50, 416 pages The pleasure and greatness of Velázquez trapped between hard covers: every figure is psychologically...
...They come as Mr López Obrador’s popularity is falling before key midterm elections next year....
...Mr López Obrador opposes the reform and wants to stamp out graft....
...Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made “rescuing” Pemex a national priority....
...Edna Jaime, head of México Evalúa, a think-tank, said the country was now witnessing “a settling of scores” on the part of the government as it demonstrates its power....
...But now, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made it increasingly tough even to get into Mexico....
...Mr López Obrador has ruled out increasing Pemex’s debt and criticised rating agencies for turning sour on Pemex when he says government support has stabilised production....
...Completing the team is Alberto Velázquez, a university economics professor, as Pemex finance chief. None responded to requests to be interviewed for this article, nor did Mr López Obrador....
...Pemex is moving in the right direction,” Alberto Velázquez, finance director, told a conference call with analysts....
...Markets are also alarmed at Mr López Obrador’s desire to end oil exports within three years in order to refine domestically and make Mexico self-sufficient in fuel....
...Edna Jaime, head of México Evalúa, a think-tank, said there was “a disconnect between expectations and reality” among Mexicans, who still believe in the president’s promises to eradicate corruption, raise...
...Mr López Obrador is relying on improvements at Pemex, given that the company funds a fifth of the national budget....
...“Pemex will be reborn,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily morning news conference on Friday, at which the additional measures were announced....
...There is a lot of uncertainty,” said Claudia Lopez Ruiz, an undocumented immigrant who crossed into the US from Mexico a decade ago with her two children, who were two and six years old at the time....
...Marta López, who runs a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, Fonda Xóchitl, in Mexico City, says that meat, chicken, egg and vegetable prices have all risen. She has been feeling the pinch since last year....
...The royal portrait, for centuries the ultimate commission for artists from Holbein to Velázquez, has become a much-neglected genre of late....
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...Top lot is “Portrait of Juan López de Robredo” by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), considered the greatest Spanish painter of his time....
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